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Microsoft has built an addictive website that guesses how old you are

Warning: your ego might get bruised.

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HOW OLD ARE you?

This website claims to be able to tell you based on looking at a photo of you.

How-Old.net was built by Microsoft and uses an algorithm to scan a photo of you and instantly tell you how old you are.

In some cases, it’s surprisingly accurate.

And in other cases, it’s frighteningly off the mark.

http://t.co/tYpshmrc2P is incredibly accurate! pic.twitter.com/n0NmRtjlhe
— Rick Waldron (@rwaldron) April 30, 2015

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Seems the Microsoft how old app thinks I'm... Well... Very old! pic.twitter.com/dMi6rWJO0n
— Tiernan (@tiernano) April 30, 2015

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THANKS A LOT, MICROSOFT.

As expected, people are having fun with it.

Even it doesn’t know who or what Rita Ora is.

pic.twitter.com/CJTwGWKHw1
— Jonno (@CiaraVEVO) April 30, 2015

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And don’t even think about asking Oprah’s age.

For the record, we put it to the test and it was just a few years off with Michael D. Higgins…

mdh

President Higgins is 74, but close enough!

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Amy O'Connor

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